Overview :With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and g... Read More
Overview :Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool c... Read More
Overview :Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observes the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy, wh... Read More
Overview :How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story ... Read More
Overview :"All these white schools I've been sent to are racist," Sonya says. "I'd have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here." These ... Read More
Overview :Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we ... Read More
Overview :The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by... Read More
Overview :In Mrs. Tully's Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers--so often ... Read More
Overview :Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming... Read More
Overview :Once again Vivian Paley takes us into the inquiring minds and the dramatic worlds of young children learning in the kindergarten classroom.A... Read More
Overview :"No adult can escape the adult perspective; but simply recognizing its inevitable limitations in a children's world enables a few gifted edu... Read More
Overview :Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly whit... Read More
Overview :Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and d... Read More